Key Terms
A two house legislature
What is bicameral?
A unicameral legislature with one vote for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This type of colony enjoyed the greatest independence from the Crown.
What is a charter colony?
Delegates gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to do what originally?
What is revise the Articles of Confederation?
First ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Colonies that were directly controlled by the king.
What are royal colonies?
Settled the disagreement on slave populations.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Set of limits on the monarch passed by Parliament after the Glorious Revolution.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This many states had to agree to pass legislation under the Articles of Confederation.
What is 9?
Our nation's first constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
One of the earliest English efforts toward limited government.
What is the Magna Carta?
What is the Virginia Plan?
The first ta passed on by the colonies by Britain.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was a group working together to defend against threats from Native Americans.
What is the New England Confederation?
Group who opposed the new constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This type of colony was based on a grant by the English monarch to an owner.
What is a proprietary colony?
Combined ideas from the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
Document written declaring separation from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The rebellion that resulted in revising the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Who are the Framers?
A powerful alliance of six Native American nations.
What is the Iroquois Confederation?
Created a system for admitting new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
British Parliament's reason for beginning to tax the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
Essays written in favor of the new Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Pen name used by the authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who is Publius?